Garment turner



R; a BATES GARMENT TURNER March 15, 1949.

Filed Nov. 8, I946 INVENTQR. Re /hQ/d 5. 50/65 specifically, mylnvehtidii relates to a fire Patented Mar. 15, 1949 that GARMENT tensesii injaifi aba e. sterilijm, I

Harry N iller and arvin M. Mil-lei, doing bjisiness Miller Manhattan's};earnestly, Am-

Siemens, N. Y.

Applioatien November 8, 1m, serial No. 708,515? 4 (o1-.22s=-3'9) buck,or to a device adapted for easement thereto whereby the operation ofturning Slldlifi tubular portion of a rmetit right si but, the press ngof the thereof, is substantially speeded up.

The present practice is to slip the trousers leg or sleeve inside outover a buck which is supported at one end only and, after pressing; to"slip the garment off the buck and thereafter turn it right side out.This requires the operator to thrust his arm down into the trousers legor sleeve iron; the top, grasp the bottom thereof and pull it up throughitself.

The principal object of my invention is to provide a pressing buck or anattachment therefor which will automatically turn a tubular garmentelement right side out after the seams thereof have been pressed on abuck, as the garment element is withdrawn from the buck.

With this object in view my invention includes the novel elements andthe combinations and arrangements thereof described below andillustrated in the accompanying drawing in which- Fig. 1 is aperspective view of a buck showing my attachment thereon andillustrating how it functions to turn the trousers leg, shown on thebuck, right side out, at it is withdrawn from said buck;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the attachment; and

Fig. 3 is an exploded perspective view of said attachment.

Referring to the drawings- I is the buck having a base 2 on which it issupported at one end only by means of the support 3. The buck is thus asort of cantilever structure having a free end 4 over which a trousersleg 5 may be slipped when turned inside out for the pressing of a seam 6on the inside thereof.

Attached to the underneath side of the buck is my device which isrepresented generally by the numeral 1 and which comprises two,pivotally mounted, hook-like elements 8 and 9 which may swing from thepositions shown in the solid lines in Fig. 1 into the positions shown indotted outline at 8 and 9, respectively. The points In and I I of thehooks are comparatively blunt to avoid injury either to the operator orto the garment and are disposed so that they extend towards the supportd emu of thebuck. The backs of the hooks are smoothly rounded so thatthe garment will pass readily thereover as it is slipped on the u kReferring now more particularly to Figs. 2 and 's, which illustrate apreferred embodiment of my device, l2 is a base which may be of metal orfiber to which the hookf-like elements 8 andfl are pivot'ally secured bymeans of the pivots l3 (see Fig. 3) so that they m swing freely betweenthe positions shown in the solid outlines in Figs. 1 and 2, and theeesieensshewn by the dotted outlines in Figs. 1 and, 2. this a coverplate, and K5 is a filler platehaving a thickness only slightly greaterthan the thickness of the elements Sand thatsaid elements may swingfreely about pivotal connections to the base when confitied b feen tc'ove'r It and the base l2.

In order to pi'bvide space for the movement of the elements 8 and 9 andto limit the arcs through which they may swing, the sides of the fillerplate l5 are cut out as shown at l6 and I1 to provide surfaces I8 and 19against which the elements 8 and 9 abut when in the positions shown inthe dotted outlines in Fig. 2, and surfaces 20 and 2| against which theelements 8 and 9 abut when in the positions shown by the solid outlinesin Figs. 2 and 3. The various parts are held together in assembledrelation by means of screws 28, 29 and 30 passing through the base andfiller plate, and threaded into holes 3|, 32 and 33, respectively in thecover plate. The assembled device may be secured to the bottom of thebuck by means of suitable screws (not shown) which pass through theholes 22, 24, 26 and 23, 25, 21, respectively, in the cover, fillerplate and base.

From the foregoing it will be apparent that, as the trousers leg isdrawn over the end of the buck, the hook-like elements 8 and 9 may bemoved to the positions shown in solid outline in Fig. 1, and thetrousers leg will pass freely over the rounded backs of the hooks inthis operation. However, since the bottom of the trousers leg hangssubstantially vertical from the side edges of the board, the hooks I0and II will engage the bottom of the trousers leg as the upper partthereof is grasped and pulled from the board over the lower portions ofthe leg. During this operation the hooks will swing from the positionsshown in solid outlines in Fig. l to the positions shown in dottedoutlines at 8' and 9 in Fig. 1.

What I claim is:

1. The combination with a pressing buck adapted to have a tubularelement of a garment,

such as a sleeve or trousers leg, slipped thereover when inside out forpressing a seam on the inside of said element, of means comprising apair of hooks, and means pivotally mounting said hooks on said buckadjacent the end thereof over which said element is slipped to projectlaterally from the opposite edges of said buck and to swing freelythrough limited arcs from positions adjacent the edges of said buck tofacilitate the slipping of said element thereover to positionsoutstanding therefrom to engage said element and effect a turningthereof as it is withdrawn from said buck.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a device for turning a tubulargarment element, such as a sleeve or trousers leg, right side out as itis withdrawn from a pressing buck after the pressing of a seam on theinside thereof and comprising a base adapted to be secured to the bottomof said buck, a pair of levers and means pivotally securing each of saidlevers at one end thereof to said base to swing freely through limitedarcs between positions closely adjacent said base and positionsoutstanding therefrom; said levers being provided at their free endswith hook-like projections disposed, when said levers are outstandingfrom said base, to engage and hold the bottom of said garment elementwhile it is being withdrawn from said buck.

3. In a pressing buck adapted for pressing the seams on the inside of atubular element of a garment, such as a sleeve or trousers leg, a pairof levers, means pivotally mounting said levers adjacent that end ofsaid buck over which said element is slipped inside out for pressing, sothat said levers project outwardly from each side of said buck and areadapted to be swung towards said buck by contact with said garment as itis drawn over said buck for pressing; said levers being provided withhook-like projections on the side thereof extending towards said garmentwhen 4 on said buck, and means limiting the swinging movement of saidlevers between a position where said projections are adjacent the sidesof said buck and a position where said projections are substantiallyspaced from said buck, whereby said projections are adapted to engageand hold the end of said garment when said garment is pulled ofi saidbuck for turning said tubular garment right side out as it is pulledfrom said buck.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a device for turning a tubulargarment element, such as a sleeve or trousers leg, right side out as itis I withdrawn from a pressing buck after the pressing of a seam on theinside therof, and comprising a base adapted to be secured to the bottomof said buck, a cover plate, means securing said base and cover platetogether, a pair of levers, means pivotally mounting each of said leversadjacent one end thereof between said base and cover plate to projectlaterally from the opposite sides of said device and to swing freelythrough limited arcs about said pivotal mountings between positionsoutstanding from said base and positions closely adjacent said base;said levers being of a length adapting them to project beyond theopposite edges of said buck when said device is secured thereto, andbeing provided at their free ends with projections disposed, when saidlevers are in outstanding position, to engage the bottom of said garmentas it is withdrawn from said buck.

REGINALD E. BATES.

REFERENCES CITED UNITED STATES PATENTS Name Date Fulps Feb. 15, 1938Number

